There’s a small part of your brain that controls creativity and it is like a child. If you ignore it, it’ll stay quiet–out of sight, out of mind. But indulge it too much and it becomes a spoilt brat, demanding attention and sneaking extra toys into the shopping cart when you’re not looking.
The To Be Read Stack is every avid reader’s best friend and mortal nemesis in equal measure. We love that there’s always a new story to explore right at our fingertips, but…the thing is just so damn high! Seriously! It’s like friggin’ Everest! I feel like I need gear for it!
So that’s what this post is. I’m naming and shaming: naming my fave authors (and fave-to-be authors), and shaming myself into actually finally finishing some of them and cracking on with the rest.
So you think you know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, do you?
Do you know all of them?
Relax, I’m going to tell you.
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a caption contest on my Facebook group with the promise that the winner got to choose the topic for this week’s blog post. So here it is:
‘What about character creation? Perhaps the process of creating an evil character? Someone that is completely opposite of you and how you have to delve into their mind?’
In the Georgian Criminal Justice System, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups: the thief-takers, who catch criminals in the act (and sometimes work with them for a reward), and the Magistrates, who are usually heavily corrupt and often take bribes from the accused and the accusers.
These are their stories.
What is a tavern or inn?
In Britain, a tavern and an inn are pretty much the same thing. Taverns are places where people, gather, drink, exchange news, and can hire a room for the night. Inns are establishments which are licensed to house lodgers. So pretty similar. Nowadays, they’ve been all but replaced by pubs (short for ‘public houses’), where food and drinks can be had, but rarely lodging; and motels, where you can rent a room, but they lack the community feel of a pub. The names live on, though, to engender the spirit of adventure and nostalgia.
The process of telling a story has survived largely unchanged since the beginning. The basic premise is always the same: you have an idea that you think people would enjoy (or need to hear), you write it down, you refine it, and then you deliver it. The tools, however, have changed a lot. Oh, I could go on and on AND ON about cuneiform and the advent of writing and what it has done to the human experience, talk about the evolution of the pen, or the history of various methods of storytelling, but there are people who have spent their lives studying it, and I only have one little blog post.
So I’m going to narrow it down to the writing programmes that I use, and why.
If you’re a writer, you’ll know that the worst thing someone can say is, ‘So when is it going to be published?’
If you’re not a writer, don’t ever ask that. Ever. Your writer friend might be too polite to actually do it, but they will be mentally strangling you.
Well, I’ve talked about myself a little, and while this is an author’s site, an author isn’t much without a story.
I have many stories in me, and many more in the queue, but the one that’s got all of my attention right now is Magic Beans.
Man, it feels like I’ve been introducing myself a lot lately. But, for you lovely people, I’ll do it again.
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